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It didn’t matter how good my teaching was – I couldn’t save them

Youth violence has increased significantly in the past decade. Iesha Small talks to Jess Staufenberg about trying to turn the tide Iesha Small can remember students she once taught who have lost their lives to youth violence. The head of change at the Youth Endowment Fund – a charity to reduce youth violence – was […]

Features

Jon Hutchinson’s top edu blogs of the week, 25 May 2020

Racism and trauma, reopening schools, outdoor learning, reading comprehension and elaborative diacope are Jon Hutchinson’s top picks of the education topics this week   Exposure to racism is trauma @ieshasmall Like many people, I have spent much of this week feeling sick about the killing of George Floyd. And like many people, I’ve been left […]

Reviews

Books for teachers and school leaders – summer 2019

Are you wondering which books to read on your summer break? We asked six people in the education field to recommend two books (one ‘work’ and one ‘play’) that they’ve particularly enjoyed over the past 12 months.   Reviewer: Damian Hinds, education secretary   Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Penguin Books Jane Eyre was my […]

Reviews, The Review

Iesha Small’s top blogs of the week 2 July 2018

Our blog reviewer of the week is Iesha Small, an educational researcher, teacher and commentator FRONTLINE: DSL @chalkantalks “Budgets have forced pastoral staff, year leaders, safeguarding members into higher contact ratios, more directed time, and less opportunities to proactively address need,” reflects an anonymous designated safeguarding lead. I have never held a pastoral leadership role […]

Reviews

How to run a good teacher mentoring programme

Does your school offer mentoring to staff? What difference does it make? A panel at this year’s Festival of Education chaired by Catt Scutt, the director of education and research at the Chartered College of Teaching, discussed how to set up an effective mentoring scheme, and whether it could be the “key” to improving teaching […]

Feature, News

Punk leadership means daring to think outside the system

The education community has a jaundiced view of school leadership at present, which is seen as risk-averse or even cowardly, says Keziah Featherstone has seen the alternative It’s doubtful that the model answer to the interview question “describe your leadership style” involves exhibiting so little moral backbone that you’ll do almost anything in pursuit of […]

Opinion

Jill Berry’s top blogs of the week 18 June 2018

Reviewer Jill Berry shares her top education blogs this week How I learn 26 names within five minutes @Jobaker9 This brilliantly practical post details Jo Baker’s strategy for quickly learning the names of pupils she teaches. I am absolutely with Jo in her conviction that being able to address each student by name from the […]

Reviews

Iesha Small’s top blogs of the week 4 June 2018

Our blog reviewer of the week is Iesha Small, an educational researcher, teacher and commentator Let them pee @debrakidd I didn’t ever think I’d be reviewing a blog about letting children go to the toilet, but life surprises you sometimes. Debra Kidd is firmly of the view that children should be allowed to go to […]

Reviews

Iesha Small’s top blogs of the week 30 April 2018

Blog reviewer Iesha Small shares her top education blogs this week   Drop dead, data drops @fultonofscience “When you have three data drops a semester, the term is always ending,” writes Kevin Fulton. Sometimes it feels like data is the one true god of education. A science teacher, Fulton examines how the generation of internal […]

Reviews